Description |
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) |
Series |
Chicana matters series |
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Chicana matters series.
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Contents |
Introduction: Myths, indigenisms, and conquests -- Mexican myth and modern primitivism: D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent -- The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American imagination: Chicano movement indigenism -- From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana indigenist feminism and mythic native women -- The contra-mythic in Chicana literature: refashioning indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva |
Summary |
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria AnzaldĂșa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Cervantes, Lorna Dee -- Criticism and interpretation
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AnzaldĂșa, Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation
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Alurista -- Criticism and interpretation
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Villanueva, Alma, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Alurista fast |
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AnzaldĂșa, Gloria fast |
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Cervantes, Lorna Dee fast |
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Villanueva, Alma, 1944- fast |
Subject |
American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism
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Literature and myth.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Indigenous peoples in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American.
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American literature -- Mexican American authors
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Indigenous peoples in literature
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Literature and myth
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Mexican Americans in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780292794054 |
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0292794053 |
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